Category: College Football

Nice little uni-related detail in last night’s college football title game, as Alabama’s graduating seniors wore little mortarboard helmet decals. I’m told that Clemson’s graduating seniors wore a similar decal, …

Click to enlarge By Phil Hecken After more than four months and hundreds (thousands, really) of games, the College Football Season is coming to a close tomorrow night, as Clemson …

By Phil Hecken and Jimmer Vilk Happy New Year, Uni Watchers! As you guys will remember, a couple weekends ago I did a post with Jim Vilk where he graciously …

Click to enlarge By Phil Hecken Good Sunday Morning, Uni Watchers — we’ve reached the (almost) half-way point in Bowl season, with 18 of the 40 bowls having been completed. …

Click To Enlarge By Phil Hecken Back today with Part II of my Bowl predictions. To all those of you who celebrated Christmas yesterday, I hope it was merry and …

I’ve always thought that Donald Trump’s obvious analog in the sports world was the New York Yankees. The overweening hubris masquerading as a commitment to excellence, the absurd insistence that …

Click to enlarge By Phil Hecken They struck swiftly, silently, just after dawn. No sooner had Navy revealed they would be wearing custom-painted helmets (seven different ones, in fact) for …

Click to enlarge By Phil Hecken The Annual Army/Navy Game is today — the two teams will be meeting for the 116th time (so it’s a bit of a rivalry) …

Click to enlarge By Phil Hecken, with Dennis Bolt As many of you know, we introduced a new feature on Sundays this year — the tracking of the Power 5 …

By Phil Hecken, with Clint Richardson Today is Hallowe’en, and one of the cooler things about the holiday is the ability of colleges, if they so choose (and possess the …

I’ve been saying for many years now that the uni-verse’s client/vendor relationship in way out of whack, especially in college sports. There’s the impression — and, in some cases, the …

In yesterday’s Ticker I noted that someone had shown up at a Jeb Bush campaign event with a very SEC-esque “Jeb” sign (shown at right; click to enlarge). I figured …

Does anyone still get excited by the words “new Oregon uniform”? For me it’s more like, “Oh, another one — yeah, whatever.” That’s the problem with (a) constantly changing and …

Click to enlarge By Phil Hecken It started with Miami (of Florida) on Thursday evening: the special white for white sake uniform: White helmet, white jersey, white pants (and usually …

Click to enlarge Bizarre scene in this ABC Sports graphic, which appears to show Old Dominion running back Ray Lawry with an extra arm (which, just to keep this uni-related, …